A theme is emerging in the run up to the poll and it’s not so much user generated content as user-generated poster advertising. The airbrushed for change David Cameron mash-ups have been the most prominent but this week Nigel Farage of UKIP gets the grassroots advertising rollover treatment.
Idontwanttoberude.com is home to the poster above a riposte to Farage’s barrage of abuse directed at the Belgian-born EU President Herman van Rompuy in which he told the European leader in the EU Parliament that he had the charisma of a “damp rag” and the looks of a “low-grade bank clerk”. The boos in the chamber have been followed by more abuse on-line for Mr Farage who also described Belgium, as “pretty much a non-country.” Look’s like he won’t be off to Belgium in a hurry but one voter at least has told him where to go.